Research Catalog

Title

Barton Mumaw, dancer : from Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and beyond / by Jane Sherman and Barton Mumaw.

Author

Sherman, Jane, 1908-

Publication

Hanover [N.H.] : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mumaw, Barton, 1912-
• Mumaw, Barton, 1912-2001

Description

xxv, 330 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Barton Mumaw, a soloist in Ted Shawn's Men Dancers Company (1933-1940), participated with his mentor in Shawn's lifelong struggle to win respectability for male dancers within American culture. In this "as told to" autobiography, Mumaw relates dramatic stories of the company's groundbreaking cross-country tours, of their building Jacob's Pillow from pre-Revolutionary hardscrabble to preeminent dance festival, and tells for the first time of his intimate relationship with dance pioneer Ted Shawn. This is revealed through details of their lives together and apart, descriptions of their dances, and a selection of rare photographs.
• This memoir, first published in 1986, will engage the general reader and is bound to attract scholars who seek to conjoin the many current works in gay and lesbian studies with today's equally numerous critical works in dance."--Jacket.

Subjects

• History
• Biographies
• Mumaw, Barton, 1912-2001
• Dancers > United States > Biography
• Denishawn School of Dancing History
• Mumaw, Barton, 1912-

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Originally published: New York : Dance Horizons, c1986. With new foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1 Life in time. "The day's at the morn" -- The way is clear -- I search: I am found -- The learning begins -- The end of Denishawn -- A phoenix rises -- Jacob's pillow is a rock -- Tours, trials, and triumphs -- The world threatens -- On my own -- War and the dancer -- The bough breaks -- New worlds to conquer -- Goodbye to all that -- pt. 2 Life in dance. Idyll -- Gnossienne -- The French sailor -- Fetish -- Cutting the sugar cane -- Dyak spear dance -- Kinetic Molpai -- Pierrot in the dead city -- The banner bearer -- Bourrée -- The God of lightning -- Funerailles -- Wild Horse -- I'll make me a world.

ISBN

0819564532

LCCN

^^^00105411^

OCLC

• 44885395
• SCSB-12011906

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library